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Is BLE changing licensing policy?

Martin

Sorry for the non-tech. question but I just heard that BlueTooth group is significantly changing BLE licensing policy. Maybe it's some kind of FUD but it should be mandatory to pay a thousands of $ for BLE licensing fee (BLE patents) per one developed device model that is using a BLE module and going to the market. Even the definition of own attributes (UUIDS) would be charged. Is it true? If so, it's going to kill all start-up projects and projects not intended to sell high volumes of BLE enabled devices...

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    Thank you guys for this helpful topic. I don't want to create other topic since this one mostly covers my situation. My company is ready to get SIG membership for BLE usage and pay the fee. Other question is whether we need to pass qualification test if:

    1. we are not going to use any Bluetooth logo or trademark on box, device
    2. device will use the only proprietary BLE service
    3. we don't event want to be compatible with any other profile or service
    4. BLE is not the main service of our product
    5. BLE will be used between our product and our application.

    I would be really thankful for a piece of help. PS. Tried to understand legal documents but as already mentioned above, I am not lawyer too.

    As it was suggested, question was moved to separate thread Moved to Is BLE qualification required for proprietary service?

  • 0 in reply to Volodymyr

    Thank you, moved see edited comment

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